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I have a great love for the English language. I love words in all their various combinations. I especially love mundane words configured in unmundane ways.
I think this weirdly benign fascination began for me when I was wee. My grandfather used to do things to me like write down unusual words and ask me what they meant. I would hem and haw and make up some sort of outrageous definition for him. We'd laugh our collective asses (oops, I mean sphyncters) off! I think I was oh, maybe ten years old, give or take, when he handed me a bit of paper with the word "hoof-hearted" written on it. He asked me what it meant. I stared at it for a while, pondering the nature of equine love (in a ten-year-old way, of course!). Then I read it out loud....
Man, I can still hear him laughing!
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Posted by BootLady on 2008-03-03 22:34:17 | Rating: | Views: 95
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